Pigs and Battleships
(1961)
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Pigs and Battleships
(1961)
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Hiroyuki Nagato | ... |
Kinta
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Jitsuko Yoshimura | ... |
Haruko
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Masao Mishima | ... |
Himori
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Tetsurô Tanba | ... |
Slasher Tetsuji
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Shirô Osaka | ... |
Hoshino
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Takeshi Katô | ... |
Ohachi
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Shôichi Ozawa | ... |
Gunji, Gangster in check shirt
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Yôko Minamida | ... |
Katsuyo
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Hideo Sato | ... |
Kikuo
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Eijirô Tôno | ... |
Kan'ichi
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Akira Yamauchi | ... |
Sakiyama
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Sanae Nakahara | ... |
Hiromi
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Kin Sugai | ... |
Haruko's mother
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Bumon Kahara | ... |
Harukoma
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Tomio Aoki | ... |
Kyuro
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In post-war Japan, people are working hard, but never so much more than the Yakuza. In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together... See full synopsis »
Teen hoodlum Kinta is excited to be given the plum job of supervising the pig pen at the local US base, for which he'll be responsible diverting the food scraps to the black market, and scoring a good income for his yakuza gang. His girlfriend Hiroku earnestly hopes he'll leave the yakuza and get an honest job, but neither is she a paragon of virtue - she is drawn into prostitution and petty thievery. The story mostly follows their troubled relationship, against a backdrop steeped in corruption, which results from the clash of US Forces occupation against the poverty and aspirations of the people of post-war Japan.
A scathing, even cynical critique. There is no tenderness at all here. Even the young lovers embracing is shown more as a desperate clinging than emotional attachment. And corruption is everywhere - there are no good guys. Confronting stuff, well-photographed, memorable as a vivid nightmare.